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Category Archives: Legacy
Macbeth: what happens next?
So what does happen after the end of Macbeth? For Shakespeare, needing a politically-acceptable conclusion, the answer was straightforward, Malcolm filling the vacuum left by the death of the tyrant and his queen. David Greig, in his new play Dunsinane, has … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Avon, Act 4: river of life
The River Avon has always been of central importance to the town of Stratford and the area surrounding it. In Shakespeare’s day, it was an important artery for trade and a source of power (the mill is mentioned in the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged birds, Forest of Arden, River Avon, Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, swans, wildlife
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Shakespeare’s Avon, Act 3: David Garrick’s Jubilee
The story of Stratford’s rise from being a typical market town into an international tourist destination is often said to start in 1769 when the greatest actor of the day, David Garrick, put on a three-day celebration of Shakespeare. The fact … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Amphitheatre, David Garrick, Jubilee, Ode, Shakespeare, Thomas Arne
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Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man in glass
Glass is the most mysterious of substances, translucent yet intensely colourful, hard but fragile and easily broken. A friend has just celebrated the first firing of her new glass kiln, and over the weekend a group of us crowded into … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged As You Like it, Charles Flower, Folger Shakespeare Library, glass, Jaques, Oundle School, Seven Ages of Man, Shakespeare, Southwark Cathedral, State Library of New South Wales
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Thomas Hardy and Shakespeare
A few days ago, on June 2nd it was the birthday of the novelist Thomas Hardy, a giant of literature whose long career spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a discussion on this morning’s Radio 4 Broadcasting House (about 37 … Continue reading
Much Ado About Tate, Tennant, Best and Edwards
It looks like being a vintage summer for Shakespeare-lovers with lots on offer around the country. In London two productions of Much Ado About Nothing have opened within a week so it’s already possible to see two sets of the … Continue reading
Greatest Shakespeare speeches?
Thinking about my favourite Shakespeare speeches has been a pleasant diversion for a damp and blowy bank holiday weekend. It started when a neighbour kindly gave me a press cutting about Simon Callow’s new TV series on Sky Arts 1 … Continue reading
Shakespeare and science fiction
It’s hardly surprising that Shakespeare’s play The Tempest has been used as the basis for science fiction. A ship and its crew are wrecked on a distant, mysterious island, populated only by a man with magical powers, several strange creatures who … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged British Library, exhibition, Forbidden Planet, Hamlet, Klingon, Out of this World, science fiction, Shakespeare, Star Trek, The Tempest
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Shakespeare’s First Folio: “read him, … and again and again”
Shakespeare’s First Folio has been in the news again recently due to two new exhibitions featuring this most famous of books. The Folger Shakespeare Library’s summer exhibition in Washington, DC, will be Fame, Fortune and Theft, looking at the book’s … Continue reading
The corruption of power
Political corruption was one of Shakespeare’s favourite subjects. You would expect to find it in tragedies like Hamlet and Richard III where power and its abuse are at the heart of the plot, but Shakespeare puts the subject of the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged Angelo, corruption, Dominiqe Strauss-Kahn, France, Measure for Measure, politics, power, Shakespeare
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